Healthy Homemade Marshmallows — William Charleton

This was an experimental recipe and did not exactly turn out as expected. I made marshmallows a few months ago, and they were great, however I couldn’t find the recipe again. I did remember they had whipped egg whites. In searching for a recipe this time around, nearly every one had corn syrup, which I wanted to stay away from. This is a relatively simple recipe and the marshmallows came out great. Here we go.

You will need:

2 Tablespoons Gelatin

4 Ounces of Water

1 Pound of Sugar

10 Ounces of Water

1 Tablespoon Maple Syrup

2 Egg Whites (and eventually 1 yolk, but we’ll get to that)

Start by combining the gelatin with four ounces of room temperature water. While that blooms, mix the pound of sugar and the 10 ounces of water on the stove. You’ll need a thermometer for this. Bring the mixture up to 240 degrees F and add maple syrup. Remove from heat and let the mixture cool off for a minute or two before adding gelatin. Add the gelatin, stirring to prevent clumping or skin. Leave to cool.

While that cools off, whip egg whites until firm. Set them aside. When the gelatin mixture is cool enough to touch, blend this really well. Once well combined, fold into egg whites.

I think this is where something went wrong. I carefully folded, but the gelatin/egg white mix was still clumpy. So I figured what the heck, and threw the whole thing in the mixer real quick. I poured this into a coconut oil greased glass baking dish to cool in the refrigerator. By the time I walked this over to the fridge, it had separated. Great.

I thought, well maybe if I just force it to mix, it’ll stick. So I poured it into the Vitamix and ran it on high for about 30 seconds. I poured it back in the dish and it took ~2 seconds before it began to separate. Gelatin on the bottom and fluffy egg whites on the top.

At this point, I figured I didn’t have anything to lose. I poured it back into the Vitamix but added an egg yolk. Egg yolks are a great source of lecithin, so I thought that would help bind everything together. And I was right!